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School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 China

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Journal article
Published: 01 June 2021 in International Journal of Production Economics
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Despite a growing body of research that has investigated the impacts of social effect on the amount pledged in crowdfunding, some questions remain unclear. How does herding behavior influence the performance in supplier innovation crowdfunding, and is such behavior rational? What are the primary mechanisms of herding behavior? Based on a panel data set from Kickstarter, we find that it is rational herding rather than information cascade that has a positive effect on the performance in supplier innovation crowdfunding, that is, later backers will combine their private information about projects with others’ contributions to make decisions. Prior contribution acts as the quality signal and affects the later crowdfunding performance. The empirical studies also testify that information asymmetries, word of mouth effect, network effect, and rational behavior are the primary mechanisms of herding in supplier innovation crowdfunding.

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Xin Tian; Yan Song; Chunlin Luo; Xiaoyang Zhou; Benjamin Lev. Herding behavior in supplier innovation crowdfunding: Evidence from Kickstarter. International Journal of Production Economics 2021, 239, 108184 .

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Xin Tian, Yan Song, Chunlin Luo, Xiaoyang Zhou, Benjamin Lev. Herding behavior in supplier innovation crowdfunding: Evidence from Kickstarter. International Journal of Production Economics. 2021; 239 ():108184.

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Xin Tian; Yan Song; Chunlin Luo; Xiaoyang Zhou; Benjamin Lev. 2021. "Herding behavior in supplier innovation crowdfunding: Evidence from Kickstarter." International Journal of Production Economics 239, no. : 108184.

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Published: 17 May 2021 in Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
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Despite extensive use of weather data to adjust replenishment and inventory strategies in the retail industry, these companies do clearly know the effect of weather on consumer behavior and retail performance. How does weather affect consumers' purchasing behavior and thus retail performance? We study empirically these questions by analyzing more than 6 million transactions made by more than 1.62 million unique consumers at 146 convenience stores in a convenience store chain in China. We choose sun, rain, temperature, and air quality index as the main weather variables. We use the average number of items per order and the average price of each item in each order as indicators of consumer behavior, and use store daily sales as an indicator of retail performance. We found that under rainy weather, people will buy more products with higher item prices in one order. When temperature rises, people will buy fewer products with a lower item price in one order. In addition, sunny weather and rainy weather have a positive impact on daily sales than cloudy weather. Air quality has a negative impact on daily sales, while temperature has a positive impact on sales. Finally, we study the impact of weather on different product categories. We find that the results depend on the product category characteristics.

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Xin Tian; Shasha Cao; Yan Song. The impact of weather on consumer behavior and retail performance: Evidence from a convenience store chain in China. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 2021, 62, 102583 .

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Xin Tian, Shasha Cao, Yan Song. The impact of weather on consumer behavior and retail performance: Evidence from a convenience store chain in China. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 2021; 62 ():102583.

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Xin Tian; Shasha Cao; Yan Song. 2021. "The impact of weather on consumer behavior and retail performance: Evidence from a convenience store chain in China." Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 62, no. : 102583.

Review
Published: 23 June 2020 in Omega
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Supply chain has received a great deal of attention both in academia and industry. The carbon emissions from supply chain activities are the major concern, therefore, many governments have implemented carbon taxes to promote energy conservation and emission reduction. Under this background, the impact of the carbon taxes on supply chain and the related operational decisions become hot topics. This paper aimed to review the researches on supply chain management under carbon tax. First, the descriptive results and a bibliometric analysis of identified articles during 2010–2019 was presented to clarify the development in this field. Then, content analysis is conducted to classify the selected articles into facility location decisions, supplier selection and order quantity, low carbon technology choice and investment, production planning, transportation decisions, pricing decisions, joint decisions and supply chain coordination under carbon taxes. The research progress in these areas was systematically reviewed and summarized. Finally, future directions were discussed from the perspectives of problem and method.

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Xiaoyang Zhou; Xiaoya Wei; Jun Lin; Xin Tian; Benjamin Lev; Shouyang Wang. Supply chain management under carbon taxes: A review and bibliometric analysis. Omega 2020, 98, 102295 .

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Xiaoyang Zhou, Xiaoya Wei, Jun Lin, Xin Tian, Benjamin Lev, Shouyang Wang. Supply chain management under carbon taxes: A review and bibliometric analysis. Omega. 2020; 98 ():102295.

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Xiaoyang Zhou; Xiaoya Wei; Jun Lin; Xin Tian; Benjamin Lev; Shouyang Wang. 2020. "Supply chain management under carbon taxes: A review and bibliometric analysis." Omega 98, no. : 102295.

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Published: 01 May 2020 in Journal of the Association for Information Systems
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The sales performance of online stores plays a critical role in the economy and has attracted increasing attention from scholars. This study focuses on different aspects of the visit behavior of online consumers and explores the dynamic relationships between visit behavior factors and the sales performance of online stores. We adopt comprehensive visit behavior measures, including number of visitors, repeat visits, visit duration, visitor bookmarking behavior, and visitor attributes, and examine whether these metrics are related to sales performance, what the dynamics of the observed relationships are, and which metric is the most important factor in these relationships. We adopt the vector autoregression model with exogenous variables to investigate the dynamic relationships of visit behavior variables with sales performance. We also assess the relative importance of different metrics in explaining sales performance. The findings reveal that visit behavior measures have a strong relationship with sales performance measures. Among the different metrics, the repeat visit metric has the significantly strongest relationship with sales performance, followed by the number of visitors. This study offers new insights for the visit behavior and sales performance literature as well as novel strategies for managers of online stores.

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Peng Peng Luo, Sichuan University; Eric Eric W. T. Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Xin Tian. Exploring the Dynamic Influence of Visit Behavior on Online Store Sales Performance: An Empirical Investigation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems 2020, 21, 607 -636.

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Peng Peng Luo, Sichuan University, Eric Eric W. T. Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xin Tian. Exploring the Dynamic Influence of Visit Behavior on Online Store Sales Performance: An Empirical Investigation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 2020; 21 (3):607-636.

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Peng Peng Luo, Sichuan University; Eric Eric W. T. Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Xin Tian. 2020. "Exploring the Dynamic Influence of Visit Behavior on Online Store Sales Performance: An Empirical Investigation." Journal of the Association for Information Systems 21, no. 3: 607-636.

Journal article
Published: 21 April 2020 in Sustainability
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Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of customer behavior in crowdfunding performance, empirical research concerning the importance of managerial responses in user-generated content is scarce. How do managerial responses affect backers’ comments? Does user-generated content affect following backers’ behavior? Using a dataset of backers’ comments and creators’ managerial responses from Kickstarter.com, we attempt to clarify the relationships among creator responses to comments, comment volume, linguistic features of comment text and crowdfunding performance. Our results show creator responses have a significant positive effect on customer engagement and crowdfunding performance. Moreover, creator response is an effective advertising strategy to improve crowdfunding performance.

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Yan Song; Xin Tian. Managerial Responses and Customer Engagement in Crowdfunding. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3389 .

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Yan Song, Xin Tian. Managerial Responses and Customer Engagement in Crowdfunding. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3389.

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Yan Song; Xin Tian. 2020. "Managerial Responses and Customer Engagement in Crowdfunding." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3389.

Journal article
Published: 31 December 2019 in Procedia Computer Science
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The deadline effect and threshold effect are common in product development and group buying. We consider these two effects also exist in crowdfunding, affecting the crowdfunding performance in the future. We conduct an empirical study using a dataset from Kickstarter.com to examine these two effects and their interactive relationship on the following crowdfunding performance. We find the threshold effect exists in crowdfunding and has a positive influence on the following contribution behaviour. The deadline effect also can stimulate the crowdfunding behaviour via limited fundraising time. Furthermore, we find the threshold effect and deadline effect are complements that increase the amount pledged.

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Yan Song; Xin Tian; Chunlin Luo. Threshold and Deadline Effect in Crowdfunding. Procedia Computer Science 2019, 162, 339 -346.

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Yan Song, Xin Tian, Chunlin Luo. Threshold and Deadline Effect in Crowdfunding. Procedia Computer Science. 2019; 162 ():339-346.

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Yan Song; Xin Tian; Chunlin Luo. 2019. "Threshold and Deadline Effect in Crowdfunding." Procedia Computer Science 162, no. : 339-346.

Journal article
Published: 14 May 2019 in International Journal of Production Economics
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In order to eliminate the information asymmetry of supply and demand in transport service market, online car hailing platforms appear recent years. Almost all the transport service markets have the property of spatial differentiation, i.e, passengers' demand and vehicle supply are subject to different distributions in different regions at different time. Under the framework of two-sided market theory, this paper develops an intermediary pricing model for transport service market to evaluate the impact of spatial differentiation and network externality on online car hailing platform's pricing mechanism, based on the analysis of transport services' supply-demand matching. The analytic solution shows that the optimal price of the online car hailing platform is decided by the degree of heterogeneity in customer valuation on demand side and driver cost on supply side. Given optimal price on demand side, supply price in a region directly determines the supply of transport service in the same region, has cross effect on the supply in other region, and has indirect effect on demand price through the aggregate supply. Based on the trip record data of New York City, the simulation shows that online car hailing platform try to customize higher prices to attract more drivers and alleviate the passengers' demand pressure in morning rush hour. Furthermore, the simulation also shows that the disparity of the flow density in adjacent areas may affect the price adjustment mechanism of the online car hailing platform, and if the regional disparity further expands, the optimal choice of the platform is to increase the price of supply side, rather than the demand side.

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Tian Wu; Mengbo Zhang; Xin Tian; Shouyang Wang; Guowei Hua. Spatial differentiation and network externality in pricing mechanism of online car hailing platform. International Journal of Production Economics 2019, 219, 275 -283.

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Tian Wu, Mengbo Zhang, Xin Tian, Shouyang Wang, Guowei Hua. Spatial differentiation and network externality in pricing mechanism of online car hailing platform. International Journal of Production Economics. 2019; 219 ():275-283.

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Tian Wu; Mengbo Zhang; Xin Tian; Shouyang Wang; Guowei Hua. 2019. "Spatial differentiation and network externality in pricing mechanism of online car hailing platform." International Journal of Production Economics 219, no. : 275-283.

Article
Published: 17 April 2019 in Journal of Systems Science and Complexity
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Price differentiation or discrimination strategy has been regarded as the best choice for firms with online and offline channels, however, recent years often witnessed the practices of the uniform pricing strategy. This paper aims to address the question whether the uniform pricing strategy may be better for the manufacturer, when the uniform pricing strategy has a positive impact on increasing the customer demand and reducing the operations cost. The research shows that the uniform pricing strategy can be better than the price differentiation strategy when the cost saving and demand increasing are large enough or the consumers’ acceptance of online channel lies in a certain interval. Moreover, the manufacturers or brand owners need a tradeoff between the benefit from online channel and the negative impact from the offline channel when they implement the price differentiation strategy. Finally, the authors obtain some managerial insights and implications based on the numerical analyses, which are in line with the phenomena in practice.

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Qiang Cai; Chunlin Luo; Xin Tian; Shouyang Wang. Uniform Pricing Strategy vs. Price Differentiation Strategy in the Presence of Cost Saving and Demand Increasing. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity 2019, 32, 932 -946.

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Qiang Cai, Chunlin Luo, Xin Tian, Shouyang Wang. Uniform Pricing Strategy vs. Price Differentiation Strategy in the Presence of Cost Saving and Demand Increasing. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. 2019; 32 (3):932-946.

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Qiang Cai; Chunlin Luo; Xin Tian; Shouyang Wang. 2019. "Uniform Pricing Strategy vs. Price Differentiation Strategy in the Presence of Cost Saving and Demand Increasing." Journal of Systems Science and Complexity 32, no. 3: 932-946.

Journal article
Published: 18 October 2018 in Procedia Computer Science
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The natural monopoly of China’s upstream industry and the vertical structure of industrial chain’s upstream and downstream competition is an important feature of China’s industrial economic structure, and the impact of the change of trade pattern on the energy industry, which located at the upstream of the China’s value chain, has become an important issue in the industrial economy. Since China has entered into the WTO in 2001, we use it for event analysis based on 1987-2007 China input-output data. The study calculates the upstreamness of production of the value chain in various industrial sectors of China’s energy industry every five years, and make correlation analysis of upstreamness of production and other economic indicators to check the characteristics of periodic inspection of China’s industrial structure with the development of industrial economy and the change of trade pattern.

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Xinran Wang; Xiaoxian Guo; Yan Song; Shasha Cao; Tian Wu; Xin Tian; Zhenping Li. The impact of the change of trade pattern on China’s energy industry——Based on the measurement of the upstreamness of production of the value chains. Procedia Computer Science 2018, 139, 248 -255.

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Xinran Wang, Xiaoxian Guo, Yan Song, Shasha Cao, Tian Wu, Xin Tian, Zhenping Li. The impact of the change of trade pattern on China’s energy industry——Based on the measurement of the upstreamness of production of the value chains. Procedia Computer Science. 2018; 139 ():248-255.

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Xinran Wang; Xiaoxian Guo; Yan Song; Shasha Cao; Tian Wu; Xin Tian; Zhenping Li. 2018. "The impact of the change of trade pattern on China’s energy industry——Based on the measurement of the upstreamness of production of the value chains." Procedia Computer Science 139, no. : 248-255.

Journal article
Published: 23 April 2018 in Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research
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This paper addresses the operational decisions and coordination of the supply chain in the presence of risk aversion, where the risk averse retailer’s performance is measured by a combination of the expected profit and conditional value-at-risk (CVaR). Such performance measure reflects the desire of the retailer to maximize the expected profit on one hand and to control the downside risk of the profit on the other hand. The impact of risk aversion on the supply chain’s decision and performance is also explored. To overcome the inefficiency due to the double marginalization and the aggravation resulting from risk aversion, we investigate the buy-back contract to coordinate the supply chain. Such contract can largely increase the supply chain’s profit, especially when the retailer is more risk averse. Lastly, we extend such risk measure to the widely-used business model nowadays — platform selling model, and explore the impact of the allocation rule on the manufacturer’s decision.

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Chunlin Luo; Xin Tian; Xiaobing Mao; Qiang Cai. Coordinating Supply Chain with Buy-Back Contracts in the Presence of Risk Aversion. Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research 2018, 35, 1 .

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Chunlin Luo, Xin Tian, Xiaobing Mao, Qiang Cai. Coordinating Supply Chain with Buy-Back Contracts in the Presence of Risk Aversion. Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research. 2018; 35 (2):1.

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Chunlin Luo; Xin Tian; Xiaobing Mao; Qiang Cai. 2018. "Coordinating Supply Chain with Buy-Back Contracts in the Presence of Risk Aversion." Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research 35, no. 2: 1.

Journal article
Published: 18 November 2017 in Sustainability
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Since the China State Grid opened the market for infrastructure construction of electric charging stations and allowed Tesla, Potevio, BAIC BJEV and other enterprises to provide their own charging stations and other infrastructure construction, the development of electric vehicles has been greatly affected. How to maintain a sustainable governance in the opened electric vehicle charging and upgraded facilities market is an important policy issues. This paper presents a monopolistic competition model for the differentiated products market and addresses several issues related to Cournot equilibrium to illustrate why the expected free market actually operates in a monopolistic competition market structure. The analytic solution of the model shows that whether the extent of firm entry is insufficient, excessive or optimum is determined by consumers’ time preference, level of production differentiation and features of cost structure, including fixed cost and marginal cost. The sensitivity analysis has been performed among the above factors and tracked some other factors which would determine the effect of the new policy issues. The main policy suggestion is that the government should optimize entry regulations and lay down the criterion of charging interface standards for charging stations to avoid the electric vehicle charging and upgraded facilities marketization process of a one-size-fits-all solution and form a monopolistic competition market.

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Tian Wu; Bohan Zeng; Yali He; Xin Tian; Xunmin Ou. Sustainable Governance for the Opened Electric Vehicle Charging and Upgraded Facilities Market. Sustainability 2017, 9, 2126 .

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Tian Wu, Bohan Zeng, Yali He, Xin Tian, Xunmin Ou. Sustainable Governance for the Opened Electric Vehicle Charging and Upgraded Facilities Market. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (11):2126.

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Tian Wu; Bohan Zeng; Yali He; Xin Tian; Xunmin Ou. 2017. "Sustainable Governance for the Opened Electric Vehicle Charging and Upgraded Facilities Market." Sustainability 9, no. 11: 2126.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2017 in Operations Research Letters
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Chunlin Luo; Mingming Leng; Xin Tian; Shouyang Wang. Subsidizing purchases of public interest products: A duopoly analysis under a subsidy scheme. Operations Research Letters 2017, 45, 543 -548.

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Chunlin Luo, Mingming Leng, Xin Tian, Shouyang Wang. Subsidizing purchases of public interest products: A duopoly analysis under a subsidy scheme. Operations Research Letters. 2017; 45 (6):543-548.

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Chunlin Luo; Mingming Leng; Xin Tian; Shouyang Wang. 2017. "Subsidizing purchases of public interest products: A duopoly analysis under a subsidy scheme." Operations Research Letters 45, no. 6: 543-548.

Articles
Published: 13 July 2017 in INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research
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We investigate the wholesale and agency pricing models for the digital version of a book made by a publisher, when the print version of the book may exist and one or two retailers sell the book in a market. In the monopoly and duopoly settings, if the revenue-sharing ratio is sufficiently high and the tax rate for the digital version is sufficiently low, then the retail price of the digital version under the agency model is smaller than that under the wholesale model. We also find that the retail price of the digital version under the agency pricing model is more likely to be above that under the wholesale pricing model in the duopoly setting than in the monopoly setting. In the duopoly setting, a sufficiently small degree of substitutability between the two book versions can also make the retail price of the digital version smaller under the agency model than under the wholesale model. Moreover, the existence of the print version is helpful to reducing the retail price of the digital version.

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Chunlin Luo; Mingming Leng; Xin Tian; Jingpu Song. Pricing the digital version of a book: wholesale vs. agency models. INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research 2017, 56, 163 -191.

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Chunlin Luo, Mingming Leng, Xin Tian, Jingpu Song. Pricing the digital version of a book: wholesale vs. agency models. INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research. 2017; 56 (2):163-191.

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Chunlin Luo; Mingming Leng; Xin Tian; Jingpu Song. 2017. "Pricing the digital version of a book: wholesale vs. agency models." INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research 56, no. 2: 163-191.

Article
Published: 21 March 2017 in Journal of Systems Science and Complexity
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This paper studies the design of a clinical pathway that defines medical service activities within each stage of a patient care process. Much prior research has developed clinical process models that consider the trajectory of services occurring in a care process, by using data mining techniques on process execution logs. A novel approach that provides a more efficient way of clinical pathway design is introduced in this paper. Based on the strategy of [email protected] methodology, the proposed approach integrates statistical methods, optimization techniques and data mining. With the preprocessed data, a complex care process is subsequently divided into several medical stages, and then the patterns of each stage are identified, and thus a clinical pathway is developed. Finally, the proposed method is applied to the real world, using archival data derived from a hospital in Beijing, about three diseases that involve various departments, with an average of 300 samples for each disease. The results of realworld applications demonstrate that the proposed method can automatically and efficiently facilitate clinical pathways design. The main contributions to the field in this paper include (a) a new application of [email protected] methodology in healthcare domain, (b) a novel method for complex processes analysis, (c) tangible evidence of automatic clinical pathways design in the real world.

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Tingyan Wang; Xin Tian; Ming Yu; Xin Qi; Lan Yang. Stage division and pattern discovery of complex patient care processes. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity 2017, 30, 1136 -1159.

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Tingyan Wang, Xin Tian, Ming Yu, Xin Qi, Lan Yang. Stage division and pattern discovery of complex patient care processes. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. 2017; 30 (5):1136-1159.

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Tingyan Wang; Xin Tian; Ming Yu; Xin Qi; Lan Yang. 2017. "Stage division and pattern discovery of complex patient care processes." Journal of Systems Science and Complexity 30, no. 5: 1136-1159.

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Published: 23 December 2016 in Journal of Systems Science and Complexity
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This paper focuses on overall and sub-process supply chain efficiency evaluation using a network slacks-based measure model and an undesirable directional distance model. Based on a case analysis of a leading Chinese B2C firm W, a two-stage supply chain structure covering procurementstock and inventory-sale management is constructed. The research shows overall supply chain inefficiency is attributable to procurement-stock conversion inefficiency. From a view of operations model, the third-party platform model is more efficient than a “shop in shop” self-operated model. However, the self-operated mode performs better in product categories such as computer & Office & digital, food & drink and healthy products due to these products’ delivery characteristics and consumers’ shopping habits. In the logistics selection, most e-retail players are inclined to choose the hybrid model of 3PL and self-operated logistics with the product category extension from vertical model to all-category model. These findings may help managers improve supplier-buyer relationship and strengthen supply chain management. This research offers a new explanation regarding the failure of e-retail supply chain.

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Yong Shi; Zhuofan Yang; Hong Yan; Xin Tian. Delivery efficiency and supplier performance evaluation in China’s E-retailing industry. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity 2016, 30, 392 -410.

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Yong Shi, Zhuofan Yang, Hong Yan, Xin Tian. Delivery efficiency and supplier performance evaluation in China’s E-retailing industry. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. 2016; 30 (2):392-410.

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Yong Shi; Zhuofan Yang; Hong Yan; Xin Tian. 2016. "Delivery efficiency and supplier performance evaluation in China’s E-retailing industry." Journal of Systems Science and Complexity 30, no. 2: 392-410.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2016 in Energy Policy
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Tian Wu; Zhe Shang; Xin Tian; Shouyang Wang. How hyperbolic discounting preference affects Chinese consumers’ consumption choice between conventional and electric vehicles. Energy Policy 2016, 97, 400 -413.

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Tian Wu, Zhe Shang, Xin Tian, Shouyang Wang. How hyperbolic discounting preference affects Chinese consumers’ consumption choice between conventional and electric vehicles. Energy Policy. 2016; 97 ():400-413.

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Tian Wu; Zhe Shang; Xin Tian; Shouyang Wang. 2016. "How hyperbolic discounting preference affects Chinese consumers’ consumption choice between conventional and electric vehicles." Energy Policy 97, no. : 400-413.

Research article
Published: 25 February 2016 in Mathematical Problems in Engineering
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This paper studies online cooperative promotion and cost sharing decisions in competing supply chains. We consider a model of one B2C e-commerce platform and two supply chains each consisting of a supplier and an online retailer. The problem is studied using a multistage game. Firstly, the e-commerce platform carries out the cooperative promotion and sets the magnitude of markdown (the value of e-coupon). Secondly, each retailer and his supplier determine the fraction of promotional cost sharing when they have different bargaining power. Lastly, the retailers decide whether to participate in the cooperative promotion campaign. We show that the retailers are likely to participate in the promotion if consumers become more price-sensitive. However, it does not imply that the retailers can benefit from the price promotion; the promotion decision game resembles the classical prisoner’s dilemma game. The retailers and suppliers can benefit from the cooperative promotion by designing an appropriate cost sharing contract. For a supply chain, the bargaining power between supplier and retailer, consumer price sensitivity, and competition intensity affect the fraction of the promotional cost sharing. We also find that equilibrium value of e-coupon set by the e-commerce platform is not optimal for all the parties.

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Erjiang E; Geng Peng; Xin Tian; Qinghong Chen. Online Cooperative Promotion and Cost Sharing Policy under Supply Chain Competition. Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2016, 2016, 1 -11.

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Erjiang E, Geng Peng, Xin Tian, Qinghong Chen. Online Cooperative Promotion and Cost Sharing Policy under Supply Chain Competition. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2016; 2016 ():1-11.

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Erjiang E; Geng Peng; Xin Tian; Qinghong Chen. 2016. "Online Cooperative Promotion and Cost Sharing Policy under Supply Chain Competition." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2016, no. : 1-11.

Journal article
Published: 13 November 2015 in Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
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Purpose: This paper compares the efficiency of two revenue-sharing contracts and discusses the members’ preference for a three-echelon supply chain with the retailer’s different risk attitude. Design/methodology/approach: This paper focuses on a three-echelon supply chain with a manufacturer, a distributor and a retailer. If the retailer is risk-neutral, the coordination of the supply chain based on the two revenue-sharing contracts is comparatively studied. If the retailer is downside-risk-aversion, the supply chain performance is comparatively analyzed and a risk-sharing contract is designed to coordinate the supply chain. Finally, the two revenue-sharing contracts under the risk-sharing contract are still compared. Findings: Although both the two revenue-sharing contracts can coordinate the supply chain with a risk-neutral retailer, they are not always able to coordinate the supply chain with a risk-averse retailer. It is interesting that the supply chain with a risk-averse retailer can be coordinated by executing a designed risk-sharing contract, which is based on any kind of revenue-sharing contract. Finally, any kind of revenue-sharing contracts is not absolutely better than another. Based on the risk-sharing contract, the retailer’s preference is equivalent between the two contracts; but for the distributor and the manufacturer, their preferences between the two contracts are positively related to their own profit share in the supply chain. Originality/value: Comprehensively comparing the two revenue-sharing contracts is the only presented research in the supply chain.

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Yumei Hou; Fangfang Wei; Xin Tian; Xiaoyun Liu. Two revenue sharing contracts in a three-echelon supply chain with a risk-neutral or a risk-averse retailer. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 2015, 8, 1428 -1474.

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Yumei Hou, Fangfang Wei, Xin Tian, Xiaoyun Liu. Two revenue sharing contracts in a three-echelon supply chain with a risk-neutral or a risk-averse retailer. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management. 2015; 8 (5):1428-1474.

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Yumei Hou; Fangfang Wei; Xin Tian; Xiaoyun Liu. 2015. "Two revenue sharing contracts in a three-echelon supply chain with a risk-neutral or a risk-averse retailer." Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 8, no. 5: 1428-1474.

Journal article
Published: 19 May 2015 in Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
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Purpose: Reducing carbon emission has been the core problem of controlling global warming and climate deterioration recently. This paper focuses on the optimal carbon taxation policy levied by countries and the impact on firms’ optimal production decisions. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses a two-stage game theory model to analyze the impact of carbon tariff and tax. Numerical simulation is used to supplement the theoretical analysis. Findings: Results derived from the paper indicate that the demand in an unstable market is significantly affected by environmental damage level. Carbon tariff is a policy-oriented tax while the carbon tax is a market-oriented one. Comprehensive carbon taxation policy benefit developed countries and basic policy is more suitable for developing countries. Research limitations/implications: In this research, we do not consider random demand and asymmetric information, which may not well suited the reality. Originality/value: This work provides a different perspective in analyzing the impact of carbon tax and tariff. It is the first study to consider two consuming market and the strategic game between two countries. Different international status of countries considered in the paper is also a unique point.

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Yumei Hou; Meng Jia; Xin Tian; Fangfang Wei; Kun Wei. Optimal decisions of countries with carbon tax and carbon tariff. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 2015, 8, 981 -1001.

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Yumei Hou, Meng Jia, Xin Tian, Fangfang Wei, Kun Wei. Optimal decisions of countries with carbon tax and carbon tariff. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management. 2015; 8 (3):981-1001.

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Yumei Hou; Meng Jia; Xin Tian; Fangfang Wei; Kun Wei. 2015. "Optimal decisions of countries with carbon tax and carbon tariff." Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 8, no. 3: 981-1001.

Original articles
Published: 13 April 2015 in Maritime Policy & Management
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Shenzhen Port (SZP), once a negligible local port, has risen dramatically to a world-leading container port and an “equal” player with Hong Kong Port (HKP). Will this market share reallocation continue, or will equilibrium be eventually realized for HKP to prosper continuously? We examine the relationship between these two ports to answer this question. We propose a new transformation method to describe the growth of container cargo transport demand, define the quantitative measures of the competition relationship and port competitiveness, and present a rigorous analytical framework with econometric tests and models to understand the true relationship between HKP and SZP. Direct empirical tests suggest that SZP complements HKP; however, the two ports exhibit strong competition when the effect of demand growth is excluded. Considering transshipment separately, we find that the impact of SZP on HKP is negative in transshipment but complementary in direct shipment. We may conclude that HKP does not affect SZP, whereas SZP has competitive power over HKP. These results are consistent with the findings of some previous theoretical studies.

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Xin Tian; Liming Liu; Shouyang Wang. Evolving competition between Hong Kong and Shenzhen ports. Maritime Policy & Management 2015, 42, 1 -17.

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Xin Tian, Liming Liu, Shouyang Wang. Evolving competition between Hong Kong and Shenzhen ports. Maritime Policy & Management. 2015; 42 (8):1-17.

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Xin Tian; Liming Liu; Shouyang Wang. 2015. "Evolving competition between Hong Kong and Shenzhen ports." Maritime Policy & Management 42, no. 8: 1-17.